Louis Artime

Some of the more significant engagements in which Mr. Artime has been involved include:

• JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation in its $950 million sale of a 51% stake in SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile to Lundin Mining Corporation and its strategic partnership in Brazil with AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V.
• Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. in its $300 million divestiture of select overseas studios and intellectual property to Sweden-based Embracer Group AB
• Appier Group, Inc. in its ¥29.8 billion (US$272 million) initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• the joint venture by Buzzfeed Inc. with Yahoo Japan Corporation to establish Buzzfeed Japan
• the acquisition by Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. of SuperPower Inc. from the Philips Group
• the $4.2 billion spin-off and joint venture by Intel Corporation with TPG Capital, L.P. to form the independent cybersecurity company McAfee
• the joint venture agreement by The Japan Atomic Power Company with Exelon
• the underwriters in Japan Bank for International Cooperation’s multiple debt offerings (guaranteed by the Japanese government)
• the restructuring sponsorship by Key Safety Systems of Takata Corporation
• an agreement by Miraca Holdings, Inc. to form a genetic testing service joint venture company with Baylor College of Medicine;
• the £844 million acquisition by Nikkei Inc. of the Financial Times Group from Pearson PLC
• the underwriters in Nippon Life Insurance Company’s $1.6 billion debt offering
• the acquisition by Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. of Sirrus, Inc.
• Olympus Corporation in its sale of its subsidiary Olympus Systems Corporation to Accenture Japan Ltd.
• the $3.5 billion acquisition by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc., its $886 million acquisition of Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its $430 million acquisition of Visterra, Inc.
• the $173 million acquisition by Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd. of the Schrader valves business from Sensata Technologies Holdings plc; and
• Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. in the unsolicited, partial tender offer launched by the fund managed by Effissimo Management Capital (an Asian activist shareholder)
• Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. in its $510 million acquisition of AIM Aerospace Corporation
• the $1.1 billion acquisition by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation of Flagship Rail Services LLC
• Toshiba Corporation (alone or through its subsidiaries) in the take-private of three publicly traded subsidiaries

Mr. Artime joined the Corporate Group of Skadden’s Tokyo office in March 2014 from the firm’s New York office, where he practiced in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Intellectual Property and Technology groups since 2010.

Mr. Artime took leave from Skadden from September 2012 to June 2013 in order to complete advanced Japanese language study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan, administered by Stanford University.